If you hold the Citi Strata Premier and transfer ThankYou Points to hotel loyalty programs, there’s an unwelcome change coming to Hotel Transfer and point values. Citi has announced a devaluation of ThankYou Points transfers to Choice Privileges and I Prefer, effective April 19, 2026. While the notice arrived via a routine “program update” email, the math tells a different story: fewer hotel points for the same number of Citi points. Your points tomorrow are worth less than today. As usual, the impact will be felt most by travelers who actually use their points strategically via point transfers rather than hoarding them for some vague future redemption or via Citi’s own portal. What’s Changing Today, Citi still offers unusually strong transfer ratios to two hotel programs, which is quite night given how expensive hotel point redemptions can be.…